Update August 5th

Whoopdee f'ing doo, omg nothing again. Sorry i just wanted to be the first to point out that nothing has happened since the sort of fail WiK material for PvE.

Sorry, I'm just that good.

Hey guys, tell me how to add a poll and we can see the real feelings or our community. Or can only an admin do it.

Why don't you actually post the update info so your post has a reason to exist?

But yeah...this is probably the most disappointing update ever considering the skill update timeline we appear to be ignoring.

I'm ready for some serious dart board updates from an intern they pay 8 bucks an hour. It would be a lot more interesting than the current META.

I honestly just expect it at this point. I'm not upset. I'm not even really disappointed. I'm just....lethargic.

They obviously don't care anymore, so why do we make a big deal out of it?

Let this go. This is the new (or should I say old?) status quo.

Honestly, I can't believe they are still concerned about the 50 people that actually play GvG. It is complete fail by Live team for thinking anyone cares at this point.

What else, if not GvG, are they supposed to focus on?

I haven't sat down to really play GW in well over a year, and this is why. Lack of updates and content. It would be nice to see more effort put into the game, but it's sort of a lose-lose situation for ANet:

If they don't put effort into GW1 updates, they're abandoning their fans when it's still pretty important to convince us that we want GW2. But if they do, they're probably putting less effort into GW2.

I don't really expect amazing updates, but it'd be nice.

this is going to be very difficult for me, but I'm going to defend Anet here.

I'm going to speak for the 2 main camps here: pvpers and pveers.

pvpers: the complaint is there isn't enough people playing. I think that's 95% because this game is 5 years old and there are other, newer things out there, and 5% because of actual improvements and balances that are needed. In summary, all the attention Anet could give to the pvp aspect won't result in droves heading back into the game.

pveers: well, again, it's a 5 year old game. For people who bought each chapter at release (the camp I'm in), you've gotten your money's worth and then some. For people who bought recently, well, you probably got it at a fraction of the original cost and have all the nice little things that have trickled forth throughout the years, that everyone else had to beg for or wait through missed deadlines for.

We know the Live Team is small, and there is a Derv rebalance in the works, as well as some new GW:B content at some point.

This is the dead time between games (GW1 and GW2). It's an inevitability and there just isn't much life that can be breathed back into GW1. Like others here I wish I was thrilled each Thurs to see what new was put in, what broken or boring aspect has been improved to where I want to run through it myself, but those days are gone. The Derv rework won't suddenly appear on a Thurs, we'll know in advance and expect it on a certain date or week. Same with GW:B -- there will probably be a month or so of pathetic Murro updates or whatever the equivalent will be.

The Live Team doesn't work on GW2. Increasing their efforts on GW1 wouldn't remove any resources from GW2; it would just mean that the Live Team would actually have to spend their work days working instead of sitting around playing RTS games and having meetings every 20 minutes.

Honestly, if developing skill updates takes 4 months of solid 9-5 work days, then I do not envy their jobs. That would be miserable.

It'd be more fun if rotations weren't bad.

Then again, there's not a whole lot of choice considering more than half the maps are unplayable.

I wish myself and 4 other people could get paid to do almost nothing for months at a time. That would be sweet.

Ironically enough, the update didn't even work. The rotation didn't change.

It would be pretty awesome to let months go by with negative community feedback, a stagnated growth rate, little to no communication with your consumers, and it all to be considered "normal" or even have people defending you.

My job would be a hell of a lot easier if the state didn't jump our rears every single time there's a complaint.

How.do.you.let.that.happen?

Someone check out the trophy. If it didn't update either that would be hilarious.

lol @ the rotation not even working.. and thats the only this update was about. But really im srry the pvp community gripes and whines about no one being there for pvp, so why is anet working on a dead spect of the community?

Think about it, lets say its was in reverse pvp was active as heck and pve was dead. Would it make any sense to attempt to breathe life into pve if literally just about no one played it like the pvp community complains about?

Meh my opinion:Stop Working on a dead animal, its dead and really tbh no amount of fixing and updating is ever going to bring it back. Just focus on the content the MAJORITY of the fan base wants.

And shane he was kinda right, GvG=dead.. stop kicking a dead horse :/

The automated map rotation is supposed to be done....automatically. They set it up like they do events. It's not like it took more than a few minutes to do...

Seriously, has anyone checked the trophy to see if it actually updated?

EDIT: Ok, if you keep deleting comments, I'm going to look like I'm talking to myself...

It has July Winner on it, and guess what, no one cares anymore than they did the last 36 months.

/agreed idk why they still keep it there. its just taking up space

Lol Pvers complaining they don't get updates even after they had months of continuous content (i.e. WiK) + 2 huge skill updates this year.

Please, if you can't stand seeing the most significant format in Guild Wars being updated, please leave this game. We don't want you. We don't need you. After all, pve is a cake-walk even when you do it by yourself.

P.S. Lets not start this again after next weeks update. You can't make Anet stop caring for GvG.